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29 Chides Critic on Ratings SUNDAY NEWS, JANUARY 23, 1949 Uy HEDDA HOPPER As soon as Anne Baxter winds up in "You're My Everything," she will be toplined by Darryl Zanuck in "The Foreign Service Story." This is 20th's top secret script in the cooking by scripter Eleanor Griffin, in was held up 20 minutes because Audie forgot to bring the license, it was no surprise to his friends. He had trouble getting a passport last year when he couldn't find his birth certificate, and, though he's the mcst decorated combat soldier of World War II, he has no record of having entert-d the Army prior to October, 1944. To get his commission, he wa discharged as an enlisted man. but lost his discharge papers duriijg the Col mar Pocket campaign. Wanda was gorgeously dressed in a white slipper satin gown, designed by Edilh Head.

It had draped sleeves and a bodice fastened with pearl buttons. She wore a Juliet cap topped by a veil of rose point lace which she got in Italy recently, and carried a corsage of white orchids. Only the close friends of the couple were invited to the wedding. They moved directly into an apartment, decorated and fur-nished by Audie while Wanda waa in Europe. It has a French provincial motif.

Ann Sothern, Linda Darnell and Jeanne Crain are in "A Letter to By KATE CAMERON A READER, Robert Kent of Mollis, N. recently took me to task for not being more generous with star ratings on foreign He thinks that we underrate them, with the. exception of the British product. Although Mr. Kent and I don't Paul Graetz, directed by Autant-Lara, adapted to the screen by Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost, the team that adapted "Symphonie Pastorale." Elliot Paul, author of "The Last Time I Saw Paris," has translated the French dialogue into English captions for the screen.

Although Paul Graetz made the picture in he is an inde- close cooperation with the State Department, and will be shot as a straight documentary, with Anne as a behind-the-scenes diplomatist. Jack LaRue, who left here last May toting a tersific torch for his ex, Connie Simpson, and went to England, will be married any day to one of London's prize society beauties. Baroness Edith von Rosenberg. Jack met her at a press cocktail party the first day he arrived England to start in "No Orchids for Miss Blandish." Both are in New York, and it is undecided as yet whether they will tie the knot there, in Miami, where he has a personal appearance run shortly, or on his return to Hollywood. Early Bird.

Charlie Bickford, an actor who can act and one who also has his shekels, was the first to get in touch wih Ernest Hemingway by cable in the south of France for his life story after the latter's provocative feature in a recent Life. Mr. B. wants to produce it as well as do the role. Micheline Presle measured right up to all the prewar standards for a newly arrived French star when she got here with 25 count 'em 25 trunks of clothes.

Right behind her chic high heels came the news that she has just copped three awards in Europe, one of which was her nomination 1sy the London Daily News for "the most memorable performance." Jane Wyman, you recall, was named by the News for "the outstanding role." It would seem a fine point of distinction, were it not for the checks. Jane drew Mile. Presle's was one cipher less Milton Sperling has a beef with Collier Young and Ida Lupino over their announcement of "Illefritimate." He says faint fair, because he lonsr ago registered the title, has had Robert Blees on the script for weeks, and already has the active cooperation of the Salvation Army and various other agencies. Edna Borzage says her man, Frank, isn't going to make a picture until something out of this world comes his way. Memories.

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guet when he was only 17 years old and created quite a sensation when was published in 1923. It appeared a decade later in an English translation by Kay Boyle. The picture will giveus a chance to see why 20thCentury-Fox induced Micheline Presle to leave Paris and journey across the ocean and the continent to Hollywood, for Micheline plays the leading feminine role in the new French film, and it was her enactment oi "Martha" that won her the contract with Darryl Zanuck. Micheline was born in Paris in 1922 and has been hailed in Paris as "France's most'promising young actress." Gerard Philipe, who plays opposite Micheline, had a long apprenticeship on the stage before being cast in the screen version of Dos toievsky's "The Idiot." Since then, Gerard has appeared in a number of French films, although few of them have been shown over here. When I come to review this French film, I'm afraid I'll feel Mr.

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In my experience of reviewing films over a period of years, it has impressed me that, again with the exception of the British, foreign studios are not equipped with the facilities for smooth picture making that distinguishes Hollywood, and that there are more showmen in our cinema capital than in any other production center in the world. The only two foreign-language pictures that rated much attention fast year were, in my estimation, "Monsieur Vincent" and "Sym-phonie Pastorale," both made in France. "Paisan," -the Italian picture that won the New York film criucs award as the best foreign-language film, is made up of a series of episodes of scenes from the last war, some of them appear so faked as to be ridiculous. Film Stirs Controversy. The Paris Theatre, which hemsed Pastorale" for its long run, is about to present a raw French film that has stirred up quite a controversy, here as well as abroad.

It will be known over here as "Devil in. the Flesh," but was presented in France as "Le Diable au Corps." There was some question about permitting it into the country. The film is based on an autobiographical novel by Raymond Radi-guet, a young genius who died at the age of 20, leaving behind a number of remarkable literary documents, not the least remarkable of which as his autobiography. The picture was produced by Micheline Presle Han Dailey heckles Alan Young during the latter's dance lesson with Holm in Roxy's "Chicken Every Sunday," based on the Julius J. and Philip G.

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